Hi Kai,

In point of fact, chaos is, by definition, not random. Choas involves things which are wholly deterministic, as in the case of the hypothetical butterfly effect. Every consequence is caused by something. The very word "consequence," or "con-sequence" meaning "with order," describes causality. Chaotic processes are subject to causality, and are therefore definitively not random.

But we use the idea of randomness to deal with anything that is unpredictable. And while nuclear radiation events, like South American butterflies, are definitly unpredictable, that does not mean that they are random. They simply aren't. The are the antithesis of random.

Joe